Skylight’s new support material launched for Cantabrians - adults, teens and children – as they try to deal with both the continuing earthquakes, and the upcoming first anniversary of February 22nd. We also continue to offer some established support options that you may not know about. These options are likely to also be useful for those people now living outside of Canterbury who have been affected by the earthquakes in any way.

I am writing this from my motel room which thankfully has a resaonable internet connection.What can i say - It has been a very interesting couple of weeks, which probably included no less that 50 phone calls to various people. But the good news is removal is now under way! Photos below.

EQC Update is emailed to EQC claimants in the Canterbury area who have a claim in progress from the September 2010 and February 2011 earthquakes and subsequent aftershocks. This newsletter is sent to claimants who have provided EQC with their email address.

We have just released a couple of new features to the site as well as a slightly different home page layout which we hope will give a little more visibilty to news posts that are nested within sections. I have made a quick summary of what has just been updated.

Brendon Burns - Over the past week, I’ve attended numerous public and cottage meetings about last week’s announcements. Thank you to those who turned up or hosted such meetings. Whether you are Red, Green, Orange or even White-zoned, there are many questions left unanswered. I still say people deserved to know what the fate of their land was. At least 5000 households, including perhaps 1000 in Avonside and Richmond in my electorate, now know that they cannot rebuild. But given the wa ...

Right so it has been a while since the last update and not because i have been too busy but more still trying to work out what is going on. Read on for an update of where things are at and also an important message to everyone that has this issue.